Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-04-07

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left III his charge.
The Pittsburg coal operators at
Chicago met and declared they will not
accept the railroad coal rates to the
lakes, which have been raised from S.
TO 05 cents ton.
The people of a village in China in
weighed a party OF three hundred
tramps INTO temple, and during the
night applied the torch. Only forty of
the number escaped.
Joel W. Kellogg, prominent poll
tlcian OF Elkhart, Indiana. has been
sentenced to three years in the peni-
Tertiary for embeZzling Sll 900 from a
building association.
Constable Pierce, at Des Moines, re-
fuses TO surrender to the United States
marshal. on Federal writs OF repIevin.
the liquor seized in the drug store of
Hurlbnt, Hess & Co.
Some person unknown bought draft
for 81, 995 at st. Joseph, Missouri. and
forWa rded it to the secretary of the
treasury TO be placed to the credit of
all unknown debtor.
A jury at Boston, in the case against
William Hogarty for keeping barber
shop open on Sunday, decided that
shaving on the Lords day is not a work
of necessity or charity.
A suit brought in Detroit to obtain
an Interpretation of the viii Of Fran
els Palms, covering an estate of at
least 81 100000, is SAID TO be really a
contest by the daughter.
In order to defeat the peoples ticket
at Racine, Wisconsin, the democrats
and republicans have united upon ID.
A. DIN for mayor. and placed full
! joint ticket in the field.
Cornelius Vanderbilt was the pur-
chaser Of Rosa Bonheur's famous
work, THE Horse Fair" at the Stew
art sale, for $53 ,000, and presented it To
the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sentences of Imprisonment of from
ore TO twenty years have been imposed
upon thirteen anarchists at Vienna
| who plotted to fire the city and blow W
the imperial palace with dynamite.
The strike of the silk dyers at Pat
| erson, n. j., has come to an end. The
men accepted the new schedule of the
| bosses after SIX weeks idleneSS, and
no concessions of any kind were made
| them.
| The lord mayor of Dublin and Arch.
bishop Croke led vast procession
which on Tuesday escorted Father:
| Ryan and Slattery to Jail for refusing
to dyulge details of the plan of cam,
pagn.
A train about to be placed on the
Lake Shore route between Chicago anC
New York is to be equipped with ;
| bathroom, barber-shop, library, anC
electric lights, and possibly heated by
steam.
fhe American Bell Telephone com
pany already has 2,613 mile. of wire
underground. IT. will soon establish
service between New York and Phiia
delphia, and then from New York Il
Boston.
Captain c. E. Dutton, of the geo
| logical survey, in studying upon tn,
Charleston earthquake, ascertaineC
that the waves travelled between fou
thousand and five thousand meters pc
second.
A billhas been introduced in the New
| York assembly to charter an aqueduc
company, with capital of 100000, 900
to furnish water from the Adirondack
region TO the Hudson river valley ant
New York.
Z. n. Williamson, Secretary of the
Wisconsin Shoe company, at James
vile. has been arrested for the embeZ
element OF $1,000, but the concern
said to have lost $50, 900 ut the hands
of thieves.
Professor MCGEE of the Geological
Survey says the Charleston earthquake
covered an area of 100000 squar
miles, and extended from Canada L
Cuba, and from the Mississippi to tn
BermudaS.
The real-estate transfers ut Louis
vile last week amounted to 81 ,22l 900
and the recorders clerks are two week
behind in their work. 1t is fifteen
years since a similar movement wa
experienced.
About one hundred clerks in tn
transfer station of the Pennsylyani;
road at Pittsburg will be discharged a
the end of the month, and all freigh
will hereafter be shipped through t
it's destination.
The committee of twenty-five OF tn
united labor party of Chicago has de
cided to make no fusion with III
democracy, but to consider the repuh
lican ticket as the only opposition I
be encountered
w. \. Comyn, the inventor Of fire
escape, While giving an eNhlDltloh .
his appliance at Buffalo. was precipi
tated from Il third-story window by tn
giving way of hook, and received Sc
rlous injuries.
The directors of the Union Paciti
road propose to 90 before the Inter
state commerce commission with def
mite proposal for the final adjustment
of the company's financial relation
TO the treasury.
Harvey l.. Leavitt, of Sioux City
one Of the parties to the conspiracy t
murder Rev. George c. HaddocS, Ia
. turned states evidence and testltie
on Monday that the fatal shot wa
fired by John Arensdorf.
In blowing in a field about tire
miles from Atlanta, Georgia, Sl.l9
was plowed up in So gold pieces. Tn
treasure is supposed to have bee
buried there before the war by som
, person who has since died,
The largest nour manufacturer Il
Canada is endeavoring TO secure fror
his government reduction of freigh
rates on the Intercolonial road, in tn
hope Of taking the trade of the Yves
Indies from American miliers.
The strike of the yard and roa